Contents – Book I Chapter I He Proclaims the Greatness of God, Whom He Desires to Seek and Invoke, Being Awakened by Him. Chapter II...
BOOK ONE In God’s searching presence, Augustine undertakes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace which his life...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER II 2. And how shall I call upon my God–my God and my Lord? For when I call on him I ask...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER III 3. Since, then, thou dost fill the heaven and earth, do they contain thee? Or, dost thou fill and overflow them,...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER IV 4. What, therefore, is my God? What, I ask, but the Lord God? “For who is Lord but the Lord himself,...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER V 5. Who shall bring me to rest in thee? Who will send thee into my heart so to overwhelm it that...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER VI 7. Still, dust and ashes as I am, allow me to speak before thy mercy. Allow me to speak, for, behold,...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER VII 11. “Hear me, O God! Woe to the sins of men!” When a man cries thus, thou showest him mercy, for...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER VIII 13. Did I not, then, as I grew out of infancy, come next to boyhood, or rather did it not come...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER IX 14. O my God! What miseries and mockeries did I then experience when it was impressed on me that obedience to...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER X 16. And yet I sinned, O Lord my God, thou ruler and creator of all natural things–but of sins only the...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XII 19. But in this time of childhood–which was far less dreaded for me than my adolescence–I had no love of learning,...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XIII 20. But what were the causes for my strong dislike of Greek literature, which I studied from my boyhood? Even to...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XIV 24. Hear my prayer, O Lord; let not my soul faint under thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XV 25. But woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry?...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XVI 27. Bear with me, O my God, while I speak a little of those talents, thy gifts, and of the follies...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XVII 28. But it was no wonder that I was thus carried toward vanity and was estranged from thee, O my God,...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XVIII 31. However, O Lord, to thee most excellent and most good, thou Architect and Governor of the universe, thanks would be...
BOOK ONE CHAPTER XI 17. Even as a boy I had heard of eternal life promised to us through the humility of the Lord our...
BOOK ONE In God’s searching presence, Augustine undertakes to plumb the depths of his memory to trace the mysterious pilgrimage of grace which his life...
